Past Events

This paper examines the rehabilitation of General Im Kyŏngŏp, a seventeenth-century official in Chosŏn Korea. Im served variously under Ming, Qing, and Chosŏn command, at times even leading forces against a country…

Wang Tiangcheng earned his B.A. from Hunan Normal University and his law degree from Peking University, where he served as law lecturer. He was active in the 1989 prodemocracy movement and later helped found an…

Miyazaki Hayao's story of a fish that becomes a girl, ending with an underwater city.

* CEAS Earthquake and Tsunami Film Series: Four Japanese Films Commemorating the March 11 Disasters

The “enhancement” of the genealogy of the Tokugawa family to further Ieyasu’s political aspirations is well known: Forging a link to the main line of the Seiwa Genji was not only an improvement—whatever Ieyasu’s…

The “enhancement” of the genealogy of the Tokugawa family to further Ieyasu’s political aspirations is well known: Forging a link to the main line of the Seiwa Genji was not only an improvement—whatever Ieyasu’s…

Contrary to the main body of literature on law and development, the dominant position of law and development scholars with expertise on Chinese law or economy downplays the role of formal law in China’s economic…

Heartwarming story of a dog who gives birth to puppies on the day of an earthquake

* CEAS Earthquake and Tsunami Film Series: Four Japanese Films Commemorating the March 11 Disasters

Sharon Hom, executive director, leads HRIC’s human rights and media advocacy and strategic policy engagement with NGOs, governments, and multi-stakeholder initiatives. She has testified on a variety of human rights…

* CEAS Issues in Contemporary East Asia Colloquium, co-sponsored by Penn Population Studies Center

In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, men and women in the Shanxi region of north China rebuilt local society under the leadership of Buddhist and Daoist clergy. Those men and women left thousands of…